What are Shrooms?

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Different types of Mushrooms:

  • Admiral Bolete- red cap and stem with yellow spores
  • Artists Conk- shelf mushroom, brown on top, white on the bottom. white spores turn brown on contact
  • Lobster Mushroom- bright orange all over
  • Fly Agaric Mushrooms- red caped with white spots, contains psilocybin




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Fly Agaric Mushroom


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What is psilocybin?

Psilocybin is the chemical found in over 90 hallucinogenic mushrooms, such as the fly agaric mushroom. Psilocybin does not cause hallucinations in people. Instead, it is metabolized into psilocin which cause the user to hallucinate. Compared to psilocybin, psilocin is 1.4 times more powerful. Because psilocin has to travel to the brain, it can take anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours to feel the effects. These effects typically wear off after 6 hours. Pure psilocybin can be made, but it is very expensive to manufacture. Also, since psilocybin is not found in the spores of hallucinogenic mushrooms, it is not illegal to possess the spores to grow mushrooms later.


Effects of Shrooms


This video demonstrates what it is like for a person who has ingested the psilocybin in the shrooms and has begun to hallucinate. Many people under the influence of shrooms also feel very paranoid and nauseated. However, it is nearly impossible to oerdose on mushrooms because the fatal does is more than 2,000 times the amount it takes to make someone hallucinate. One of the biggest dangers when using shrooms is that users will eat mushrooms that look a lot like fly agaric mushrooms but are actually poisonous mushrooms.

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